Catalog rules the week: a biopic, a Netflix sync, and a festival set rewrote the charts in favor of old tracks.
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A Netflix sync has turned a decade-old big-beat track into one of the most-streamed songs on the planet this week. Apex, now the platform's most-watched title, features "Go" in what Billboard and NME both confirm drove a 429% jump in U.S. on-demand streams — from roughly 13,000 daily plays the week before the film's release to 127,000 on April 30 alone. Billboard reports that Taron Egerton, who stars in Apex, was personally responsible for the placement. Originally the second single from Born in the Echoes and featuring uncredited vocals from Q-Tip, the track earned a Grammy nomination in 2015 but had remained largely a cult fixture since. Tunefind also places it in earlier TV appearances, but nothing approaching this scale. Now appearing across 1,820 country and platform charts, "Go" is a case study in how a single scene in a breakout streaming title can rewrite a catalog track's entire commercial trajectory.
She was more like a beauty queen from a movie sceneI said "Don't mind, but what do you mean, I am the one"Who will dance on the floor in the round?She said I am the one
The Michael biopic has sent Billie Jean surging across more than 1,400 country and platform charts simultaneously — a 9x jump from its recent baseline. The Antoine Fuqua-directed film, starring Jaafar Jackson as his uncle, landed in theaters in late April and immediately pulled catalog streams upward across every major platform; according to Billboard, the track drew 4 million U.S. on-demand streams in a single tracking week, and per That Grape Juice, it reached number 9 on the Global Spotify chart — a new peak — 43 years after release. The song appears on the film's official soundtrack, including a recreation of the Motown 25 performance where Jackson first debuted the moonwalk in 1983, with Jaafar Jackson performing the sequence in what GeekTyrant described as the trailer's centerpiece clip. Per Times Now, the broader catalog surge has pushed Jackson past current chart regulars including Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny on global streaming tallies. Beat It is close behind on the Billboard rankings, but Billie Jean, typically Jackson's most-streamed track in any given week, has extended that lead during the biopic's theatrical run.
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Justin Bieber's Coachella headlining set has sent a 13-year-old pop hit to the top of the global charts. According to K-Jewel 99.3 FM, "Beauty and a Beat" racked up 5.1 million streams in the days following the performance — a 390% gain — and entered the top five on both the Spotify Daily Top Songs USA chart and Apple Music's real-time listing. Billboard subsequently confirmed it hit number one on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, and RTTNews reports it topped the full Billboard Global 200 with 69.6 million streams in the tracking week ending April 30. Co-writer Savan Kotecha told Billboard Canada that his own kids assumed it was a new release. Currently tracked across more than 1,100 country and platform charts, the resurgence rivals the catalog spikes typically seen after Super Bowl halftime performances.
Have you ever been dumb enough to do what you wanted to doWithout good reason coming over you?Have you ever been young enough to feel what you wanted to feel?Take back those years for something real
"Iron Rooster" is surging across 143 country and platform charts after Foo Fighters began performing it live again for the first time in 25 years. Per Billboard, the band has played the song four times in 2026 alone — the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh performances in its entire live history — ending a quarter-century gap that made each appearance an event. The track originally appeared on the Saint Cecilia EP, released free in November 2015 as a gift to fans following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins's close friend and the broader turbulence the band was navigating that year. Lyrically it sits in the EP's more introspective register: less arena-ready than the Foos' signature anthems, built on a brooding mid-tempo groove and a chorus that reads almost as self-accusation. Catalog deep cuts tend to stay deep — the live revival here is doing the excavation work.
They told him, "Don't you ever come around here""Don't wanna see your face, you better disappear"The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clearSo beat it, just beat it
The Michael biopic has detonated Jackson's catalog across the global charts, and "Beat It" is the second-biggest beneficiary. Per Billboard, the track logged 2.9 million on-demand streams in the immediate wake of the film's release, trailing only "Billie Jean" among individual songs — and inmusicblog.com places it at No. 5 on the Daily Spotify Global Chart. The song appears in the film itself, confirmed across the official soundtrack listings at Deadline and Entertainment Weekly. Now tracking across 138 country and platform charts, "Beat It" — the Eddie Van Halen guitar solo, the gang-truce video, the Quincy Jones production that made rock and R&B briefly indistinguishable — is being encountered fresh by audiences who came to the biopic first and the catalog second.